"When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do."

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Source : "Distance" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. September 22, 1980.

Bob Gibson

#Athlete Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Never resign. There's always a chance your opponent may drop dead before he mates you.”
“I have no interest in cars. I have a plain, used Buick. I could run over 10 people, and you wouldn't be able to describe my car.”
“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.”
“Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.”
“So however much time has passed since Legacy came out would also have transpired in the real world. So it will still be contemporary. So let's say if the Tron sequel comes out later, then four or five years have passed since the last movie.”
“The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.”
“I just try to be as honest and open as possible with all my music, whether it's live shows or the studio.”
“There are some plain common-sense considerations applicable to all these attempts at world planning. They can be briefly stated: 1. To talk of blueprints for the future or building a world order is, if properly understood, suggestive, but it is also dangerous. Societies grow far more truly than they are built. A constitution for a new world order is never like a blueprint for a skyscraper.”

Source : Norman Thomas (1944). “What is our destiny?”

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